Post by Tallulah Wright on Nov 8, 2016 17:16:38 GMT
Tallulah Marceline Wright
FACE CLAIM: Alexia Fast
♦ THE BASICS ♦
AGE: Seventeen
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
POSITION: Belelfonte Student♦ THE ABILITY ♦
POWER: Illusion
Tallulah has the ability to input illusions into people's minds. To do that, she needs to keep eye contact with the person for about five seconds (rarely less, often more). This time is used for her mind to find a weak spot into the other person’s mind to place the illusion in. During that time, she needs to focus on what she wants the person to see. However, the illusion’s exact form cannot be decided by her. For example, if she wants somebody to see a cake, she may be able to determine a type (chocolate) but not the form it will have. This means she is bound by the person’s knowledge of things. Despite not knowing their family, she could make them see their parents since they do know what they look like however if she tries to generate something they’ve never seen before, the image will take whatever form they believe it is like and/or will be blurry and not realistic enough.
Once the illusion is in, Tallulah has little control over the time it will last. She could maintain it by keeping eye contact with the person but the duration of the illusion is up to the person. If they do not want to move out of it, it can last longer, whereas people with some sort of mental barrier or enhanced senses could tell faster and break through after mere seconds. It generally lasts fifteen minutes, twenty at best. The illusions are harmless and visual only. There will be no sound or smell attached to them. It will also be impossible to interact with them. Being touched by something/someone who wasn't in the illusion will also help the brain break through it faster. They can be as small as a die or as large as an entire room, the time it lasts is still generally the same. In fact, smaller ones often tends to end faster because the surrounding area isn’t an illusion and people may walk through it, thus proving to the brain it isn’t real. In the same line of idea, if the room is loud, the person’s senses can hear it and break from larger illusions that covered the cause of the noise. Normally, the brains starts attacking the illusion right as its implanted, it simply takes it some time to notice the distortion between what is fake and what is real.
LIMITATIONS:
- While she can put illusions in her head by looking at herself in the mirror, her brain tends to destroy them just as they are created.
- People with enhanced senses can more easily break through. Same for those with some kind of mental barrier. It may not even work on them.
- Tallulah is not immune to other people’s illusions.
- Cannot determine exactly what the illusion will look like, her power is limited by the affected person’s imagination/memory.
- Needs to have an eye contact to implant the illusion. If the contact is broken in any way, including blinking, she has to start all over again. To maintain an illusion, she needs to keep eye contact (the person not necessarily knows of it as the illusion could erase her from their sight).
- Illusions are visual only, they have no sound or smell to them. They also cannot be touched.
SIDE-EFFECTS:
- If she creates a big illusion, the objects that now disappeared from the person’s sight are still there, meaning if they move inside the illusion, they could get hurt because they don’t see it.
- The most tiring is to implant the illusion. It asks a lot to her brain. She will be dizzy for a few seconds once that is done. After that, is she maintains contact, it will slowly get worst. This can lead to fainting.
- Repeated use of her power will leave her with migraines and nosebleed.
- Greater chances of getting brain tumors and cancer.
- Tallulah can sometimes question what is real and what isn’t.♦ THE CHARACTER ♦
HEIGHT: 5'8'' (1.73 m)
HAIR COLOR: light brown
EYE COLOR: dark brown
MISC: She couldn't hide it, even if she'd want to. Tallulah has lost her right leg about four inches below the knee. While she now sports a nice proshetic leg, she started school without one. Even so, it's pretty obvious this isn't a real leg. Even so, she doesn't cover it with pants, as she preferred skirts and shorts in the past rather than tie the loose pant leg as she would have had to. Her clothing style is normally unimpressive and pretty basic. Same for her hair, that she only brushes and sometimes put up in a ponytail. She doesn't like wearing makeup and has very few pieces of jewelry.
PERSONALITY: Tallulah is a strong-willed yet cheerful young woman. She had to be strong when she lost her leg at twelve and had to walk around with crutches because they could not afford a prosthetic leg at the time. In fact, she got it only this year and is not entirely used to it. Still, she didn't let the glances and comments behind her back destroy her and showed a strong face to the world, often acting as though there really was nothing there. She hates being pitied and would normally explain to people who showed their sympathy for her what it really is like and just how she is dealing with it. Really, the reason why she doesn’t want any of that is not to depress herself. Because it is taking its toll on the girl, she’s just not showing it on the outside. She has decided to act like this, hoping that if she seemed as though having only one leg is really nothing, people would stop consider this as the main, if not the only, way to talk of her. She prefers to be positive than aggressive about it.
When depression over being different isn’t hitting her, she is a rather happy person. Most of the time, she would rather ignore someone instead of fighting them head on. Unless she finds them picking on someone weaker. It might be the bottled feelings losing a leg brought up in her that makes her want to fight for others. But she’s always been a bit headstrong.
When Tallulah gets passionate over something, she can get pretty intense. She will also likely bore everyone about this. Like this time she took to mandala coloring and had three different books with hundreds of those to draw. In the end, she only drew about a third of them before getting bored. Because that’s the problem with her passion, it can die just as easily as it started. She’s had several books she did not finish because she lost interest halfway through it or tv shows she’s abandoned because it wasn’t quite like the amazing first season. People can fall into that same pattern although it is less likely. The idea of going out with them is more to happen than her sudden desire to break ties with them.
Tallulah has a wall that she’s built around herself. While she may say a lot about her past or things she likes, getting to really know her or consider yourself as a very close friend of hers may be tougher than it seems. It’s worse if you have a crush on her. She’s just had too many people finding her missing leg as more awkward than they first believed, or going to her just to make fun of the handicapped girl that she protects herself by maybe revealing much and doing activities with you but not letting anyone too close. If she has a crush on you, she's even more likely to keep you away from her, scared you'd think it's too strange to be with someone who only has one leg. She can take it from strangers (not really but she can hide her pain well enough) but that would destroy her if someone she really liked thought that way.
If you think her physical state makes her idle, you couldn’t be more wrong. You’ll likely find that she walks a lot faster than you could imagine and she isn’t afraid to get things done. She just knows there is a limit to what she can do. Maybe a little less now that she has a leg, but she’s still not quite used to it so she’s going easy on it for now.
SECRET(S): Tallulah is totally obsessed by Asian dramas and more particularly Japanese ones. Dramas though, as in live action shows and movies, not the anime type, as she doesn’t know those too well. She can spend hours watching them on her laptop. She’s also a big fans of J-Pop and J-Rock, especially Kat-tun (so please don’t remind her they disbanded this year).
She also dreams of being a cook and have her own restaurant someday.♦ THE HISTORY ♦
Tallulah was born on a September afternoon, the fifteenth to be exact. Her mother is Rosalind Wright. As for her father, she doesn’t know who he is, other than a name on her birth certificate: James Powers. Her mother said he died before she was born, before he even knew he had a daughter. Is this true or just an attempt to quiet her daughter’s questioning? Tallulah isn’t sure and doesn’t really care. The man was never there and she never looked for him. Anyway, her mother started seeing a man when she was about three and Miles was the only one she remembered and considered as a father figure. Miles also had a son, Isaac, who was her age. The two, despite knowing there was no common DNA between them, always treated each other as brother and sister. Their parents separated when they were about nine but they saw the beautiful friendship between their children and thought it would be bad to prevent them from seeing each other. They were each other’s best friend after all.
She was twelve when an accident caused her to lose her right leg. She’s never known what caused a part of the building’s foundations to collapse but a piece of the ceiling fell on her and crushed her leg. It took a long time before they could get everyone out. All that Tallulah remembers well from that day was how she closed her eyes when they pulled her out and took her to the ambulance, in fear or seeing a pancake version of her leg. Then started a battle, and despite the fact there was not weapons involved in it, there was a lot of bleeding, of the financial kind. It was a battle with insurances. She was too young to understand it all but it sounded to her as though both argued over who should pay. The building’s insurance refused to give anything until a thorough investigation was complete and a clear explanation to what happened had not been established. Between all of that was a young girl who had started necrosis on her toes. The least expensive solution was to amputate. Anyway, they would have had to cut a piece of the foot and to a twelve year old Tallulah, a part of the foot or a part of the leg mattered little, it still meant she would be mutilated.And so Tallulah lost her leg. The doctor still tried to make her look on the bright side by telling her he left her as much as he could.
Tallulah’s mother didn’t have the money to pay for the medical bill though. She was now covered in debts. In order to pay them, they gave up their apartment and moved to a smaller one. Tallulah learned to walk with crutches, as they didn’t have the money to get a prosthetic leg. Even the crutches had been offered to them. It was rough at times, especially since teenagers are the worst at showing compassion towards each other. She had to endure it for about two years before her power manifested. Her mother was depressed every now and then, usually after being completely burned out from work and seeing her daughter forcing a smile on for her sake, and Tallulah tried to cheer her up yet again. This time, after the woman looked into her girl’s eyes, something unbelievable happened. For a moment she saw Tallulah, with two legs. She stood up in frenzy, not getting what was going on, scaring the daughter in the process. And so the illusion faded and Tallulah’s mother assumed she only imagined all of this. Only, within the week, a knock was heard at the door and two people came up to explain this was indeed an hallucination but that it had nothing to do with her being tired. It would appear Tallulah’s father had been a mutant, a fact her mother had no idea of and so a whole new concept of the world opened for the two. While being scared of leaving her mother behind, Tallulah was still willing to follow them to Bellefonte Academy. At the very least would it be one less mouth to feed and so the debt may be cleared faster.
When arrived at the school, her main concern had been the price of it all but she was told her mother wouldn’t have to pay. She found it hard to believe and even turned down the laptop they offered at first, along with a few others things, until she was assured this wouldn’t cost them anything. Tallulah had not used a computer often in her life, nor did she look at the internet much. She loved it with a passion. Through a channel called YouTube (you know it?) she discovered Asian dramas and visited multiple other sites offering subbed versions of them. Since she was not part of any club and relatively quick to do her schoolwork, she spent most of her free time watching those.
Earlier this year the court had finally stated just how much the insurance and those held responsible owed her for what happened to her leg. It took some time but they eventually sent the money. While her mother used it to repay a part of the debt, she spent it mostly on giving her daughter a new leg, hoping she would have a slightly more normal life. Now Tallulah has two of those again, which is a bit weird at times. Not to add that she’s not quite used to it just yet. But she intends to be and show people what she can do.♦ THE PLAYER ♦
USERNAME: Bobby
AGE GROUP: late twenties
EXPERIENCE: half my life now that I think about it...
WHERE DID YOU FIND US? i was brought back
